Mexico City

Famous Citizens

Octavio Paz (1914–98), writer, the first

Mexican to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and career diplomat, serving in France, Switzerland, Japan, and India.

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), painter.

Because Mexico City has been the center of national culture, the country's most important writers, painters, and musicians have left their stamp on the city. Some came to study and later to teach and work. Artists like Diego Rivera (1883–1957 husband to Frida Kahlo) and fellow muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1898–1974) and Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), executed many of their murals and paintings in Mexico City.